Warren Leads Push to Spur Climate Reporting Amid SEC Rule Pause

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 37 other left-leaning lawmakers are pushing the SEC to ensure companies follow existing agency guidance encouraging environmental disclosures, after the regulator paused its new climate reporting rules amid legal challenges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission must “firmly state” the agency will enforce its previous environmental reporting recommendations, including 2010 guidance pressuring companies to disclose how climate change impacts them, the lawmakers told the SEC Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the House Financial Services Committee’s top Democrat, were among those who joined Warren in a letter to SEC Chair Gary ...